Pate v. State

ORDER MODIFYING DEATH SENTENCES

Now, on this 8th day of March, 1973, an application and amended application having been duly filed, and response thereto made, for reconsideration of the decisions of this Court in the above styled and numbered causes, and the Court being fully advised in the premises, has no other alternative but to modify the judgments and sentences of death, heretofore imposed by the State of Oklahoma, in the light of Furman v. Georgia, Jackson v. Georgia, and Branch v. Texas, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 and the Directives of the Supreme Court of the United…